Memoir Jipon living and fossil Elephants. I9 



his ; that of Neuhof *, the tusks of which are too high ; 

 that of Edwards f, the head of which is too round, because 

 it is taken from a young subject, to which it was necesssary 

 •to add tusks, are all Indian elephants. 



The two figures in BufTon J, copied by Schreber §, and by 

 Alessandri||, are the two sexes of the Indian species, 



Mayer gives a tolerable figure of a male dauntelah^ 

 (vorstell. allerh. thiere, i. pi. Ixix. ;) but the skeleton 

 (ib. Ixx.) is copied from Blair, without any correction. 



The elephant foetus preserved in the East India Com- 

 pany's house at Amsterdam, and represented by Seba, 

 (tome i. pi. cxi.) is also of the Indian species. 



The limits between the Indian and African species was 

 already distinctly enough traced with respect to the various 

 parts of the head, and without having occasion to resort to 

 the other characters, which we shall point out by and bye, 

 and which are supplied by the number of the nails, and 

 the forms of various bones of the limbs ; but before being 

 able to apply with certainty the osteological characters of 

 the cranium to the fossil elephant, we must determine what 

 are the variable parts of one individual from the other, in 

 one and the same species. 1 have therefore subjected my 

 Indian crania to a comparison with each other, and I did 

 the same with my African ones. 



The latter presented me with scarce any appreciable dif- 

 ference. 



As to the former, T found svme with respect to the 

 occiput and the alveoli of the tusks. 



The occiput is more swelled in every direction in the 

 former than in the latter, without regard to» the length of 

 the tusks. 



The alveoli of the tusks of th^ dauntelah are a little more 

 oblique in front ^ those of the mookna are a little straighter 

 towards the bottom. 



The latter are a little smaller, but by no means so much 

 so in the proportion ^ of . the tusks themselves. What is 



* Ambass. Orient. Descr. Gen. de la Chine, p. 94. f Av. 221, f. 1. 



\ Hiit. Nat. xi, PI. L ct Suppl, § Quad. ii. Jab. 78. {| Quad. i. PI. ii. 



B 2 deficient 



